Milack Talia's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Milack Talia refused to tell citizens where he stands on any of the issues addressed in the 2012 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.

Kansas State Legislative Election 2004 National Political Awareness Test

This candidate has responded to a Political Courage Test in a previous election. As a continued effort to provide the American public with factual information on candidates running for public office, these archived responses are made available here.

The Political Courage Test asks candidates which items they will support if elected. It does not ask them to indicate which items they will oppose. Through extensive research of public polling data, we discovered that voters are more concerned with what candidates would support when elected to office, not what they oppose. If a candidate does not select a response to any part or all of any question, it does not necessarily indicate that the candidate is opposed to that particular item.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.

b) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.

c) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.

X

d) Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).

X

e) Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.

X

f) Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.

X

g) Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.

h) Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.

X

i) Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.

X

j) Increase funding for Head Start programs.

X

k) Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.

X

l) Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.

m) Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.

n) Support in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants who are Kansas high school graduates.

o) A district judge has ruled that Kansas' system of financing schools is inadequate. What are your proposals for increasing Kansas' aid to education. Please use forty (40) words or less.

Additional taxes only after the Legislature and Governor first generated economic stimulus to increase the tax base for more state revenues; and second worked to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse within the state budget to reduce unnecessary spending.